>> <use_reply_addr...@spamsights.org> wrote:
>> >In message
>> ><8d589d4a-838f-4314-80bc-37ad32de9...@m38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
>> >All-Seeing-I <allseei...@usa.com> writes
>> >>There is a bigger picture to be considered here. The European Court of
>> >>Human Rights is located in Strasbourg, Germany.The complaint was in
>> >>Italy made by someone that was born in Finland. So we have 2 outside
>> >>entities telling the population of Italy to change the way it has
>> >>lived for a couple thousands of years.

>> >It's not a "couple thousands of year", the web site that was quoted
>> >clearly says:

>> >"The law requiring crucifixes to be hung in schools dates back to the
>> >1920s. "

>> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8340411.stm

>> That doesn't mean they weren't hanging them is schools before
>> that. On the other hand, Italy didn't exist until the late 19th
>> century, and public/state schools aren't much older than that.

>> Gien the date, it might have been by act of the Fascists.

> Oh, it was. In 1924, by Mussolini. Not just in schools, but all
> government buildings. He also reintroduced the Catechism into primary
> school education in the same law. It was part of his ploy to get the
> Acerbo law passed, for which he needed suport of at least soem of the
> catholic MPs - on the one hand, increasing violende against moderate
> Catholic organisations (and dropping the remaining populari ministers
> in his Cabinet) while at the same time offering the right wing
> hardliners what they had wanted: Catholic school education, symbols in
> government buildings, outlawing of Free Masons and a promise to solve
> the "Roman question" (which would happen later in the Lateran Treaty
> that established the Vatican as state and made catholicism state
> religion in Italy) In return, the Pope banned priests from joining or
> endorsing the catholic party, which as a result split and delivered
> the vote Mussolini needed. Cardinal Vannutelli, Head of the Sacred
> College of Cardinals, said thank you thus:  "for his energetic
> devotion to his country," adding that the Duce "had been chosen (by
> God) to save the nation and to restore her fortune."

>   His daughter who now active in a neo-fascist party was one of the
> first to condemn the Strassbourg ruling